Both teams full of manufactured hurlers with a minority of natural hurlers. Both suck the joy out of watching the game. Both have supporters who’d annoy the fuck out of you.
Not much between them really
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The difference is Cian lynch. He is the best we’ve seen. The likes of shefflin or canning wouldn’t lace his boots.
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The water break needs to be taken into account here too
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Limerick.
I think the Kilkenny backs would utterly rile the Limerick forwards out if it with their discreet niggling and on the edge physicality which would lead to someone, Gillane most likely getting the line which would be the difference.
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A Jackie Tyrell style “softener” could be the difference maker alright
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Noel Hickey leaving a few hurling imprints on him would surely lead to retribution
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A wild pull in the immediate aftermath or on the next dropping ball
Flawless as a hurler. He makes everyone around him better.
Kilkenny by a distance
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He has better players around him than Joe Canning ever did in fairness
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And a system
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Stability at the helm, massive
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A bad county board will always find a way to destroy a generation of talent
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This
Would ye not throw a few into the factory there?
KK got 9 allstars
Limerick got 11
KK had just won a three in a row
Know your place
3 in 4 years for Limerick,
and we all know the controversy in the 2019 semi with the Cillian Buckley 65 which wasn’t given.